'Loved abroad & reviled at home'. To what extent is this an accurate assessment of Thatcher?
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- loved abroad & reviled at home
- inaccurate
- Britain seen as American poodle in unequal relationship
- US invasion of Grenada did not go down well
- R didn't ask permission
- US invasion of Grenada did not go down well
- Argentinians didn't like T as she didn't look at diplomacy, simply declared a naval task would remove Argentinian forces
- Catholics in Spain, Italy etc. came out against T
- Soviets dubbed Thatcher the 'Iron Lady' for her ferocious foreign policy
- (this nickname given by journalist)
- EEC
- Bruges Speech 1988 & famous 'No, No, No' speech showed her defiance of supranationality in EEC
- 1980 insisted B get bigger rebate or she would withhold the VAT
- Relationship with Delors was not friendly
- 'Up Yours Delors!'
- bad relationship with Kohl despite sharing ideology
- she wasn't invited to the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
- 1980 Housing Act very popular
- popular with share-owning middle class
- Falklands Factor increased national patriotism
- Britain seen as American poodle in unequal relationship
- accurate
- T & R had special relationship
- T seen as mirroring US political system of operating EXOP & turning Downing Street into White House
- both Cold War Warriors
- Falklands Islands
- people of Falklands wanted to be British so loved T
- winning against Argentina made sure T was loved by Falklanders & internationally
- improving relationship with Gorbachev
- 'man with whom we can do business'
- passionately fought an won battles against excessive power of Brussels
- played key role in joining UK to ERM & Single European Act
- Channel Tunnel result of improving relationship with Mitterand
- Poll Tax sparked riots in London 1990
- clashes between protestors & policed showed they were politicised
- her tackling of Miner's Strike made her unpopular as she brought down biggest TU - the NUM
- T & R had special relationship
- inaccurate
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